Physarum lilacinum var. coeruleum G. Lister, 1925

Lado, Carlos & Basanta, Diana Wrigley De, 2018, Typification of the myxomycete taxa described by the Listers and preserved at the Natural History Museum, London (BM), Phytotaxa 341 (1), pp. 448-450 : 448-450

Physarum lilacinum var. coeruleum G. Lister , in Lister, Monogr. mycetozoa, ed. 3, 30. 1925

= Physarum globuliferum (Bull.) Pers., Syn. meth. fung. 1: 175. 1801

Syntypus: U.S.A. Philadelphia, 1887, G.A. Rex (two slides L:B.M.12!, a dry mount engraved 37, BM001089950 , and slide engraved 38, BM001089951 ) .

L:B.M.12 one dry mount engraved 37/ Physarum / globuliferum/ Pers./ Philadelphia/ 1887/ leg. G.A. Rex / BM001089950 + one slide engraved 38, BM001089951.

NOTES: Lister (1925: 30) commented “These beautiful forms were found by Mr. Hugo Bilgram near Philadelphia; they present further examples of the colour varieties occurring in the P. globuliferum series.”. In BM no obvious type material was located. There are two slides with reference “L:B.M.12 Physarum globuliferum Pers., Philadelphia , leg. G.A. Rex , 1887”, one is a dry mount with fragments of substrate and sporocarps, engraved 37 , BM001089950 , the other a prepared microscope slide, engraved 38, BM001089951 .